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...biggest concern is that those teenagers who do have sex after they?ve taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who?d never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit family planning research organization. "While there is good news in this study showing that association with abstinence groups does have a strong effect on some teenagers, there is certainly no reason to think that an abstinence pledge is all one needs to help adolescents deal with their...
...biggest concern is that those teenagers who do have sex after they've taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who'd never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit family planning research organization. "While there is good news in this study showing that association with abstinence groups does have a strong effect on some teenagers, there is certainly no reason to think that an abstinence pledge is all one needs to help adolescents deal with their...
...Darroch concentrates instead on Ottoline's relationships with more influential artists and thinkers--it is her contribution to their lives, after all, that lifts Lady Morrell from the sad category of the eccentric to the realm of the creative. From her first days in London as a political hostess, to her old age spent in Garsington, the country home that became a haven for both aging artists and young Oxford undergraduates, Ottoline kept herself surrounded by a protective wall of friends and acquaintances. Like Hermione Roddice, she filled her house with intellectuals, defining her own worth by her part...
Virginia Woolf described Ottoline as "a Spanish galleon, hung with golden coins and lovely silken sails." Other writers, Darroch says, described her variously as "an oversized Infanta of Spain, an enormous bird, a lion-hunting hostess." In Those Barren Leaves, Aldous Huxley described those moments, just before retiring, when the Ottoline-like character would turn to her house guest and ask probing, intimate questions. "For on the threshold of her bed-chamber she would halt," he says, "desperately renewing the conversation with whichever of her guests happened to light her upstairs. Who knew? Perhaps in these last five minutes...
...DARROCH'S BIOGRAPHY leaves the reader with the same sense of confusion--a sense that somewhere the real Ottoline is still hiding behind the draperies of her acquaintances. At the end of the book, one can almost understand her; but the promise of knowing her fully still teases us. She spent her life trying to breach the defenses of those around her, but ultimately she could not reveal her own emotions. She expressed her energy as an intellectual phenomenon, unable to get to the passion beneath. As a result, her relationships ended with rejection of her domination. "How inaccessible...